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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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12549
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Marco
Leonardi
Rossella
Mossucca
Fabiano
Schivardi
Battista
Severgnini
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Gains from Early Support of a New Political Party
We study the potential benefits and mechanisms of firms' political connections by analyzing the Italian experience, where, in the early nineties, Silvio Berlusconi, a rich TV tycoon, became the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 190; 878 - 890)
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G32, G38, D72
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12548
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Michal
Kurlaender
Lester
Lusher
Matthew
Case
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Is Early Start a Better Start? Evaluating California State University's Early Start Remediation Policy
Remediation has long been a costly way to address the misalignment between K-12 and higher education. In 2011, the California State University (CSU), the nation's largest public four-year university ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (2), 348 - 375)
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I20, I23, I28
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12547
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Paul
Dolan
Georgios
Kavetsos
Christian
Krekel
Dimitris
Mavridis
Renuka
Metcalfe
Claudia
Senik
Stefan
Szymanski
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Quantifying the Intangible Impact of the Olympics Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Hosting the Olympic Games costs billions of taxpayer dollars. Following a quasi- experimental setting, this paper assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2019, 177, 104043)
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I30, I31, I38, L83, Z20, Z28
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12545
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Nico
Pestel
Florian
Wozny
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Low Emission Zones for Better Health: Evidence from German Hospitals
This paper studies health effects from restricting the access of high-emission vehicles to innercities by implementing Low Emission Zones. For identification, we exploit variation in the timing and ...
(revised version published as 'Health Effects of Low Emission Zones: Evidence from German Hospitals' in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 109, 2021, 102512)
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I18, Q52, Q53
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12544
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Stephanie
von Hinke
Nigel
Rice
Emma
Tominey
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Mental Health around Pregnancy and Child Development from Early Childhood to Adolescence
We identify the causal effect of mothers' mental health during early - and soon after pregnancy on a range of child psychological, socio-emotional and cognitive outcomes measured between ages 4-16. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102253)
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I12, I14, I3
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12542
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Elodie
Douarin
Julia
Korosteleva
Slavo
Radosevic
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Determinants of Productivity Gap in the European Union: A Multilevel Perspective
The paper explores the determinants of productivity gap within the European Union in four industrial manufacturing sectors (computers, chemicals, basic metals and food) of strong macroeconomic ...
(published as 'The Two Disjointed Faces of R&D and the Productivity Gap in Europe' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2022, 60 (3), 580 - 603)
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L60, O33, C55
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12541
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Seamus
McGuinness
Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Paul
Redmond
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Skills-Displacing Technological Change and Its Impact on Jobs: Challenging Technological Alarmism?
We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2023, 32 (3), 370-392 )
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J24, O33, O31
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12540
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Michael
Kosfeld
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The Role of Leaders in Inducing and Maintaining Cooperation: The CC Strategy
I discuss recent findings from behavioral economic experiments in the lab and in the field on the role of leaders in human cooperation. Three implications for leadership are derived, which are ...
(published in: Leadership Quarterly, 2020, 31 (3), 101292)
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C90, D90, M5
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12539
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Jiafei
Hu
Rigissa
Megalokonomou
Haishan
Yuan
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How Do Parents Respond to Regulation of Sugary Drinks in Child Care? Evidence from California
To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 672-687)
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O15, O18, P16, H54
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12538
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Nicholas
Lawson
Dean
Spears
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Those Who Can't Sort, Steal: Caste, Occupational Mobility, and Rent-Seeking in Rural India
Three important features of Indian labor markets enduringly coexist: rent-seeking, occupational immobility, and caste. These facts are puzzling, given theories that predict static, equilibrium social ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, 87 (1), 107–140.)
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O15, J71, J24, J47
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12537
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Dean
Spears
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The Asymmetry of Population Ethics: Experimental Social Choice and Dual-Process Moral Reasoning
Population ethics is widely considered to be exceptionally important and exceptionally difficult. One key source of difficulty is the conflict between certain moral intuitions and analytical results ...
(published in: Economics and Philosophy, 2020, 36 (3), 435-454)
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J10, J13, J18, D63
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12536
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Martin
Guzi
Peter
Huber
Stepan
Mikula
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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration
We analyze the long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland after World War II on residential migration. This event involved expulsion of ethnic Germans and almost complete depopulation of ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 12536 )
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N44, Z10, R23, J15
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12535
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
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Eliciting Utility Curvature in Time Preference
This paper examines the effects of alternative assumptions regarding the curvature of utility upon estimated discount rates in experimental data. To do so, it introduces a novel design to elicit time ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23 (2), 493-525)
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C91, D01, D90
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12534
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Matthew
J.
Lindquist
Yves
Zenou
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Crime and Networks: 10 Policy Lessons
Social network analysis can help us understand more about the root causes of delinquent behavior and crime and provide practical guidance for the design of crime prevention policies. To illustrate ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019, 35 (4), 746 - 771)
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A14, K42, Z13
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12533
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Linguère
Mously
Mbaye
Massimiliano
Tani
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Migration, Innovation, and Growth: An African Story?
This chapter brings new evidence on the relationship between short-term labour mobility, as proxied by tourism flows, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period ...
(published in: M. Konte and L.M.Mbaye (eds.), Migration, Remittances and Sustainable Development in Africa, London, Routledge, 2020, chapter 3, 38-61)
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J61, O15, O33
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12532
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Plamen
Nikolov
Alan
Adelman
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Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China
Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100204)
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D64, O15, O16, J14, J22, H55, R2
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12530
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Lídia
Farré
Francesc
Ortega
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Selecting Talent: Gender Differences in Participation and Success in Competitive Selection Processes
We investigate whether competitive selection processes generate gender inequality in the context of a prestigious graduate fellowship program. All applications are scored remotely by expert reviewers ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 1881-1913)
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J3, J7
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12529
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Arnim
Seidlitz
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The 2011 Break in the Part-Time Indicator and the Evolution of Wage Inequality in Germany
German social security records involve an indicator for part-time or full-time work. In 2011, the reporting procedure was changed suggesting that a fraction of worker recorded to be working full-time ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2020, 54, 1(2020))
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J60, J31, C80
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12527
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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The Impact of High-Performance Work Systems on Employees: A Sectoral Comparison
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the private sector is largely ...
(published in: Labour, 2024, 38 (1), 102-121)
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I31, J45, M5
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12526
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Daniel
Goller
Michael
Lechner
Andreas
Moczall
Joachim
Wolff
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Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed
Matching-type estimators using the propensity score are the major workhorse in active labour market policy evaluation. This work investigates if machine learning algorithms for estimating the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101855)
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J68, C21
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12524
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Plamen
Nikolov
Alan
Adelman
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Do Pension Benefits Accelerate Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Rural China
Higher life expectancy and rapidly aging populations have led to the introduction of pension programs in developing countries in the last two decades. Using the introduction of a new public policy in ...
(updated version published as DP15742 . (published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023, 205, 594 - 617).)
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J14, H55, H75, J26, J24, D91, O12, N35, O10
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12522
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Lukas
Kiessling
Pia
Pinger
Philipp
K.
Seegers
Jan
Bergerhoff
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Gender Differences in Wage Expectations: Sorting, Children, and Negotiation Styles
This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 12522 )
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D81, D84, I21, I23, J13, J30
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12521
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Krishna
Regmi
Daniel
J.
Henderson
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Labor Demand Shocks at Birth and Cognitive Achievement during Childhood
As epidemiological studies have shown that conditions during gestation and early childhood affect adult health outcomes, we examine the effect of local labor market conditions in the year of birth on ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, 101917)
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J20, J21, I20, I30
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12519
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Paul
Dolan
Grace
Lordan
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Climbing up Ladders and Sliding down Snakes: An Empirical Assessment of the Effect of Social Mobility on Subjective Wellbeing
We examine how intergenerational mobility affects subjective wellbeing (SWB) using data from the British Cohort Study. Our SWB measures encapsulates both life satisfaction and mental health, and we ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2021, 19, 1023–1045)
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D31, D63, I1,I14, J60
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12518
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Oded
Stark
Krzysztof
Szczygielski
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The Likelihood of Divorce and the Riskiness of Financial Decisions
We link causally the riskiness of men's management of their finances with the probability of their experiencing a divorce. Our point of departure is that when comparing single men to married men, the ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (3), 209 - 229)
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D21, D81, G32
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12517
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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High Performance Work Systems and Public Sector Workplace Performance in Britain
Using nationally representative surveys of workplaces with 50 or more employees we find the adoption of High-Performance Work Systems (HPWS) in the public sector are positively correlated with ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021,73 (3), 1057-1076 )
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J45, M5
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12516
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Shuai
Chen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability
We study the effect of marriage on the stability of formal partnerships exploiting same-sex marriage legalization in the Netherlands as a natural experiment. Same-sex marriage legalization allowed ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 44-58.)
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D78, J12, J15, J16, K36
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12515
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Fabio
Berton
Stefano
Dughera
Andrea
Ricci
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Unions and Firms' Investments: A Unified View
In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment decisions given their labor productivity. By allowing workers' organizations to have ...
(published as 'A simple model of holdup, union voice, and firm investments' in: S.W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo and G. van Houten (eds.): Workplace productivity and management practices (Research in Labor Economics, 49), 2021, 67 - 84)
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J51, O31, O32
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12514
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Nusrat
Abedin
Jimi
Plamen
Nikolov
Mohammad
Abdul
Malek
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
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The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency
Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2019, 52 (1-3), 37-55)
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E22, H81, Q12, D2, O12, O16
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12513
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Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
Kirsten
Thommes
Katja
Rebecca
Tilkes
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Decisions on Extending Group Membership: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment
We experimentally analyze whether the opportunity to receive a permanent contract motivates temporary group members in a public good setting and how this affects the other group members. We compare ...
(published in: Games, 2020, 11 (4), 61 )
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C9, M5
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12512
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James
Albrecht
Xiaoming
Cai
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Susan
Vroman
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Multiple Applications, Competing Mechanisms, and Market Power
We consider a labor market with search frictions in which workers make multiple applications and firms can post and commit to general mechanisms that may be conditioned both on the number of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2020, 190, 105121)
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C78, D44, D83
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12511
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Benoit
Dostie
Mohsen
Javdani
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Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data
Job training is one of the most important aspects of skill formation and human capital accumulation. In this study we use longitudinal Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine whether ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society, 2020, 59 (2), 275-315.)
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J24, L22, M53
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12510
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Caterina
Alacevich
Catia
Nicodemo
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Immigration and Work-Related Injuries: Evidence from Italian Administrative Data
There is growing evidence that foreign-born workers are over represented in physically demanding and dangerous jobs with relatively higher injury hazard rates. Given this pattern, do increasing ...
(published as 'The Effect of Immigration on Occupational Injuries: Evidence from Administrative Data' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 86 (2), 209-235)
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C55, J61, J28, I1
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12509
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Sophia
Schmitz
Felix
Weinhardt
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Immigration and the Evolution of Local Cultural Norms
We study the local evolution of cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with very high ...
(An updated version of this paper is available as IZA DP No. 16428.)
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J16, J21, D1
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12508
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Maoliang
Ye
Jie
Zheng
Plamen
Nikolov
Samuel
Asher
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One Step at a Time: Does Gradualism Build Coordination?
This study investigates a potential mechanism to promote coordination. With theoretical guidance using a belief-based learning model, we conduct a multi-period, binary-choice, and weakest-link ...
(published in: Management Science, 2019, 66 (1), 113-129.)
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C91, C92, D03, D71, D81, H41
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12507
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Elizabeth
Dhuey
Jessie
Lamontagne
Tingting
Zhang
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The Impact of Full-Day Kindergarten on Maternal Labour Supply
We examine the impact of offering full-day as a replacement for half-day kindergarten on mothers' labour supply using the rollout of full-day kindergarten in Ontario, Canada. We find no impact on the ...
(published as 'Full-Day Kindergarten: Effects on Maternal Labor Supply ' in: Education Finance and Policy, 2021, 16 (4), 533 - 557.)
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I28
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12506
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Pedro
Carneiro
Emanuela
Galasso
Italo
Lopez Garcia
Paula
Bedregal
Miguel
Cordero
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Parental Beliefs, Investments, and Child Development: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment
This paper experimentally estimates medium term impacts of a large-scale and low-cost parenting program targeting poor families in Chile. Households in 162 public health centers were randomly ...
(revised version published as 'Impacts of a Large-Scale Parenting Program: Experimental Evidence from Chile' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 132 (4), 1113–1161)
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H43, I10, I20, I38
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12505
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Hao
Li
Daniel
L.
Millimet
Punarjit
Roychowdhury
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Measuring Economic Mobility in India Using Noisy Data: A Partial Identification Approach
We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative to fully understand the welfare effects of the rise in inequality that has ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2023, 186 (1), 84-109)
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C18, D31, I32
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12504
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Martin
Foureaux
Koppensteiner
Jesse
Matheson
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Secondary School Enrolment and Teenage Childbearing: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
This article investigates whether increasing secondary education opportunities influences childbearing among young women in Brazil. We examine a novel dataset reflecting the vast expansion of ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (4), 1019–1037)
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I20, I26, J13
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12503
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Thomas
Breda
Clotilde
Napp
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Girls' Comparative Advantage in Reading Can Largely Account for the Gender Gap in Math-Intensive Fields
Gender differences in math performance are now small in developed countries and they cannot explain on their own the strong under-representation of women in math-related fields. This latter result is ...
(published in: PNAS, 2019, 116 (31), 15435-15440)
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I24, J16
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12501
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Faical
Akaichi
Joan
Costa-Font
Richard
Frank
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Uninsured by Choice? A Choice Experiment on Long Term Care Insurance
We examine evidence from two unique discrete choice experiments (DCE) on long term care insurance and several of its relevant attributes, and more specifically, choices made by 15,298 individuals in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, 2020, 173, 422-434)
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I18
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12500
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Karen
A.
Mumford
Antonia
Parera-Nicolau
Yolanda
Pena-Boquete
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Labour Supply and Childcare: Allowing Both Parents to Choose
We develop and estimate a structural model of labour supply for two parent families in Australia, taking explicit account of the importance of childcare related variables. Our main contribution is to ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 82(3), 577-602.)
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J00, J13, J22
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12499
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Frank
M.
Fossen
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Entrepreneurship over the Business Cycle in the United States: A Decomposition
Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic upswings. I show that this is mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2021, 57, 1837-1855)
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L26, J22, J23, M13
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12497
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Gopi
Shah Goda
Matthew
R.
Levy
Colleen
Flaherty Manchester
Aaron
Sojourner
Joshua
Tasoff
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Who Is a Passive Saver under Opt-In and Auto-Enrollment?
Defaults have been shown to have a powerful effect on retirement saving behavior yet there is limited research on who is most affected by defaults and whether this varies based on features of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 173, 301-321)
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D91, J26, J32, D14, D15, M52
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12496
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Seamus
McGuinness
Adele
Bergin
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The Political Economy of a Northern Ireland Border Poll
Given the increased prominence of a border poll in Ireland, particularly following the outcome of the Brexit referendum, this paper provides an initial assessment of some of the issues that are ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2020, 44 (4), 781 - 812)
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P52, J01, J10, R10
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12494
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Laura
Hospido
Carlos
Sanz
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Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research: Evidence from Submissions to Economics Conferences
We study gender differences in the evaluation of submissions to economics conferences. Using data from the Annual Congress of the European Economic Association (2015-2017), the Annual Meeting of the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 83(3), 590-618)
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A1, J16
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12493
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Cristina
Blanco-Perez
Abel
Brodeur
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Publication Bias and Editorial Statement on Negative Findings
In February 2015, the editors of eight health economics journals sent out an editorial statement which aims to reduce the extent of specification searching and reminds referees to accept studies ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (623), 1226-1247)
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A11, C13, C44, I10
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12491
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Jan
Feld
Nicolás
Salamanca
Ulf
Zölitz
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Students are Almost as Effective as Professors in University Teaching
In a previous paper, we have shown that academic rank is largely unrelated to tutorial teaching effectiveness. In this paper, we further explore the effectiveness of the lowest-ranked instructors: ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 73, Article 101912)
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I21, I24, J24
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12490
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Damian
Clarke
Hanna
Mühlrad
Mårten
Palme
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Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply: Analysis of IVF Reform in Sweden
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be ...
(revised version available from the authors)
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J13, I11, I12, I38, J24
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12489
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Marcello
Perez-Alvarez
Marta
Favara
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Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact ...
(published in: Journal Population Econonmics, 2023, 36, 1573–1606 )
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I15, I25, J13, J16, O15
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